Teoria.com’s Clef Reading Game is a great free sight reading game that comes with options.  You can choose to name notes either by just...

Studies are showing that preschoolers given weekly private piano lessons are out-performing others at school, after only 6 months!  The...

This video is a beautiful story of a 6-year-old pianist, Emily Bear, told by WGN.  A child playing as well as an adult level, who even composes her own music.   She performed at the White House in 2008.  When asked where her inspiration for the music she writes comes from she says “I don’t know…my heart.”  So adorable!   It does seem hard to imagine a child of that age being able to compose music in any other than an organic way.  They would have had so little time to absorb

NaturalHealth365 reports: Many tasks such as verbal skills or visual skills are clearly ‘left’ brain or ‘right’ brain; however listening...

While some 6-year-olds struggle to learn how to use their fingers to pull the zipper up on their coats or blow their noses, a 6-year-old boy from Hong Kong somehow develops the finger dexterity of a concert pianist.  His level of playing matches the ability of a piano student after 15 years of dedicated study, or more.   After coming out with his debut home-made video showcasing his skills, this 6-year-old Internet sensation named Tsung Tsung shut down the conspiracy theorist

DoSomething.org posted 11 Facts about Music Education: Children who study music tend to have larger vocabularies and more advanced...

Vocalist/pianist Anna Christine was the semi-finalist on The Voice.  At the time she was only 10 years old, but she possessed the vocal maturity of an adult and has been wowing audiences ever since. This video is of her performance in June 2013, when the Daily Caller reported she “stunned viewers across the nation performing “ The House of the Rising Sun ,” on NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.” The talented 10-year-old from Henderson, Nevada, debuted a surprisingly rich, deep vo

We all remember childhood songs that bonded us with our peers.  It might have been a song from camp, a song sung every school football...

This aired on PBS NewsHour on February 24, 2012; it was produced by the Learning Matters group, specifically Cat McGrath and John Merrow. It looks at the Harmony Program out of CUNY in NYC, which provides after-school music education to under-privileged children. That program is modeled off El Sistema, a famed Venezuelan program of the same nature. The Harmony program consists of a 2 hour after school group class on their instrument every day, plus practice on nights and wee

The hilarious classical comedy duo Igudesman and Joo perform a barely distinguishable version of Ticket to Ride in the guise of a silly soprano aria.  Hyung-ki Joo gives a wonderful performance as both the soprano voice and piano accompanist. Interested in lessons?   Learn more!   | Questions?   Contact us Music Junction offers private one-on-one music lessons with talented and caring music teachers at our music school in Burbank, CA. Study your choice of piano, voice, guita

As music opportunities in the schools systems dwindle, parents are taking matters into their own hands for their children’s music...

Going through a voice change can feel disconcerting and forlorn for young boys.  Singing Consultant Jenevora Williams published a great...

A piano goes where no piano has gone before!  This is a beautiful piece performed by pianist/songwriter John Schmidt.  How did they transport that grand piano to the middle of nowhere?  That’s part of their specialty.  The Piano Guys are a group of “guys” who put together beautiful videos like this one and live performances.  “What do you get when you mix up a marketing genius that does video, a studio engineer that writes music, a pianist that had a successful solo career,

Research shows that piano lessons are recommended for the development of fine motor skills .  So, how can that enhance our lives?  Most...

This is a neat performance by Glen Kotche demonstrating how anything can become an instrument – even the kitchen sink.  Delta Faucet says “To demonstrate the precise control of Touch2O Technology, Delta Faucet developed a custom “drum kit” along with the Chicago-based percussionist and composer Glenn Kotche, best known for his involvement in the band Wilco. In this 30-second TV commercial, Glenn “plays” the touch faucets to re-create one of the most popular songs of the 1960

Barbershop.org published a great article outlining what the scientific and academic community have discovered about the benefits of...

Smule advertises their popular app Sing! as a “ Global Karaoke Party ,” which captures the way this app connects people across the world.  This is a wonderful concept that gives anyone the opportunity to sing with others, anytime, without leaving their house.  Singers can sing solos, duets, or group songs.  We like that this app encourages people to make music, and makes it a social experience as well. Often in our culture, we are encouraged not to sing by our family or peers

This comedy duo from Great Britain combines their incredible concert musician skills with a sense of humor, creating an amazing and impressive routine that makes classical music more accessible to audiences while entertaining the heck out of them.  This video is just an exceptional, amazing performance that personally makes me (Charissa) so happy!  Please make sure to watch it to the end because each segment gets bigger and more ridiculous.  Just when you think they can’t t

This is a neat example of overtone singing – a special vocal placement that allows a singer to create a note that actually has a higher 2nd pitch, which is voiced simultaneously with the lower note.  When you listen to it – make sure to listen carefully for the higher note to hear the melody – the lower note never changes.  In this example, the singer, Yuichi Tuba, creates a lower note that stays constant, and then manipulates his inner mouth shape to change the higher note

This is an amazing video featuring a virtual choir made of prerecorded homemade videos from 3,746 people in 73 countries of the same song.  It’s a 3,746-person choir in this 3rd installment by Eric Whitacre (the 4th video features over 8,000).  Composer Eric Whitacre’s idea for a Virtual Choir featuring voices from all over the world began when a fan recorded herself singing one of his songs and shared it on YouTube. “Eric was deeply moved by the spirit of her performance